A Man Can Do All Things If

Painting Contains A Divine Force Which Not Only Makes Absent Men Present, As Friendship Is Said To Do, But Moreover Makes The Dead Seem Almost Alive.

Philosophers Say That Nothing Can Be Seen That Is Neither Illuminated Nor Colored.

I Shall Praise Those Faces Which Seem To Project Out Of The Picture As Though They Were Sculptured, And I Shall Censure Those Faces In Which I See No Art But That Of Outline.

Errors Accumulate In The Sketch And Compound In The Model.

We Must Always Take From Nature What We Paint And Always Choose The Most Beautiful Things.